Netherlands - Ysselsteyn

Sent by Anette who lives in Ysselsteyn, Netherland.

This is from Wikipedia : Ysselsteyn is a small village in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands. It was established in 1921 and named after its designer, Hendrik Albert van IJsselsteyn, then Minister of Agriculture.

Ysselsteyn's main object of interest is the nearby German war cemetery (26 hectare or 70 acres), which contains 31,598 graves of German soldiers who died in the Netherlands during World War II. In addition, there are 85 graves of German soldiers who fell in World War I and whose bodies ended up in the Netherlands by floating down rivers, mainly the Meuse. (The Netherlands were neutral in World War I.)

Ysselsteyn German war cemetery is now the only German war cemetery in the Netherlands as after World War II all German fatalities were concentrated there. It is administered by the German War Graves Commission, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.